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Mirkwood Bats

· Creature — Bat · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

889

Decks Running

457

In Decks

3972

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Final zone distribution

211 instances

1.9%

Library

31.3%

Battlefield

35.1%

Graveyard

4.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Mr. House, President and CEO 47 decks
2 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 26 decks
3 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 25 decks
4 Witherbloom, the Balancer 17 decks
5 Ygra, Eater of All 15 decks
6 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 14 decks
7 Marneus Calgar 12 decks
8 Blech, Loafing Pest 8 decks
9 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor 8 decks
10 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King 8 decks

The "good card" funnel

891 brought · 404 players

Brought to game

891

Ever drawn

188

Reached battlefield

122

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 54% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +8.0pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=119) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=625).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 16% (n=66) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap +16.7pp; 95% confidence interval +8.0pp to +25.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=122

15%

55%

T6-9

14%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 9 · max 18

On curve 23% (18 / 122 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

844 of 300 tracked games 99%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 620,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.